The Salesman

Asghar Farhadi · 2016 CE · Film · Persian · Contemporary

A Tehran couple rehearsing Miller's play at a small theatre are moved out of their crumbling flat and into another whose previous tenant left in a hurry, and one evening the wife buzzes the door open expecting her husband. She will not go to the police; he decides to find the man himself. What he does with the answer is the argument the film is having.

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• alludes to ↑ Death of a Salesman
  Arthur Miller · 1949 CE · Play

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